Means for supporting articles in cabinets



March 23 1926.

E. H. PINTO MEANS FOR SUPPORTING ARTICLES IN CABINETS 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Jan.

2' FDGD March 23 1926.

E. H. PINTO MEANS FOR SUPPORTING ARTICLES IN CABINETS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Jan. 6 1925 1 0-622 Z67" Z Pei/z Z0 Afiq Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

UN-IE STATES P A T T F F'l CjE IEDVI'A'RD HENRY PINTO, C'F VEST HAMFSTEAD, LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR T0 GOMPACTOM LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR SUP2ORTING ARTICLES IN CABINETS.

Application filed January 6, 1925.

T0 aZZ whom may concern:

Be it known that L EDWARD HENRY PINTO, a subject of the King of England, residing at 86 Vest End Lane, V est Hampstead London N. 6, England (whose POSt-OlliCB address is 86 Vest End Lane, Vest Hampstead, London N. 6. England), have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Supporting Articles in Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention refers to improvements in means for supporting articles in cabinets of the kind having recessed doors.

The invention is more particularly intended for supporting ladies dresses or other garments in a clothing cabinet the supporting device being so constructed and arranged that when the cabinet door is opened the supporting device will be spread out in a horizontal. plane thereby displaying all the garments to the view of the operator and in such positions that any particular garment can be selected and removed without disturbing or in any way interfering with the others. The invention, however is of general application 'for supporting any article usually hung up in a cabinet.

According to this invention a bracket frame is hinged or pivotally attached to the side of the cabinet to which the door is hinged, said frame carrying a series of horizontally projecting arms each individually pivoted to the bracket frame and all secured at their outer ends, and at spaced apart intervals, to a band or bands of leather or other pliable or flexible material the ends of which are fastened to the back of the cabinet and to the interior of the recessed door.

Ordinary garment or other supports with the articles thereon are hung upon the pivoted arms.

A wardrobe having recessed doors has been proposed in which clothes-supporting arms separately pivoted to a back plate in its turn hinged or pivoted to the side and door of the wardrobe are connected by a band with the wardrobe body and the door so that when opening the door the arms are also automatically moved out.

My invention is illustrated in theacconr panying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a plan view showing part of the body of a cabinet with the door in the closed position Serial No. 807.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the door in the fully open position;

Fig. Sis a side elevation of Fig. '1. partly broken away; and

f is an enlarged section taken 011 the line 4-4: in Figure 2.

In these drawings A represents the body of the cabinet and B is the recessed door thereof hinged thereto as shown at B C is a bracket rigidly secured, as by the screws C, to the inner surface of the side of the cabinet to which the door is hinged and having pivotally mounted thereon a frame D. The frame carries a plurality of horizontally projecting arms E each inclividually pivoted at E to the frame. The pivots E are preferably made in the form of double-ended posts rotatably mounted top and bottom in angle pieces D D (Fig. 3) attached to or forming part of the frame D.

In the form shown in the drawings the angle pieces D D are attached to the frame by screws D engaging a cylindrical pin rotatably mounted in a distance piece C on the bracket arm C The angle pieces D D are secured together at the ends by the distance pieces D and screws D The projecting arms E are each secured at spaced intervals to a band F of leather or other pliable material, the ends of which are fastened respectively at F and F to the inside of the back A of the cabinet body and to the interior of the front part B of the recessed door B.

Preferably each arm E is provided with an extension piece E which is screwed to the end of the arm through an aperture made in the band F. The extension pieces E are preferably each provided with a .slotted block E over which is hooked the hook or other suspension means of the hanger or garment supporting device. By

this arrangement the garment supports will be held axially on their respective arms E thereby preventing the suspended garments or other articles from rotating when the door is moved and thus overlapping each other. In Fig. 2 garment supports are represented by the dot-and-pick and dotted lines G on two of the pivoted arms E.

When the door is opened the pull on the leather or other band F will open out all the pivoted arms E with their suspended article supports through acircular angle about the pivot of the frame D and about their own pivots thereby displaying the articles suspended side by side on the pivoted arms.

I claim:

A Wardrobe having" a side Wall divided to provide a fixed portion and a hinged portion, a door secured to and movable With the hinged portion, a bracket projecting from the fixed portion of the side Wall near the pivotal connection of that portion With the movable portion thereof, a frame pivotally mounted on the bracket, a series of arms pivotally mounted in the frame, and

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a flexible element connected With each of the arms and terminally connected respectively to the fixed and movable portions of the Wardrobe, whereby when the movable portion is open the frame is turned on the bracket and the arms are independently turned on their pivotal support in the frame to spread the free ends of the arms in accordance With the degree of opening of the Wardrobe.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of December, 1924.

EDXVARD HENRY PINTO. 

